LaDon Love is the executive director of SPACEs in Action. This week she reflects on the current moment in history and needs to happen next.
Tag: 14th Amendment
Posted inHistory
The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
Donald Trump has pardoned insurrectionists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, following in the footsteps of Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, who also pardoned insurrectionists after the Civil War, but both periods of clemency were followed by periods of discrimination and violence.
Posted inNational News
22 states sue to stop executive order blocking birthright citizenship
Attorneys general from 22 states have sued to block President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right that guarantees that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.
Posted in!Front Page National News
 Supreme Court hears Colorado’s challenge to Trump’s candidacy
By Catherine Pugh Special to the AFRO “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the […]
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Supreme Court is urged to rule Trump is ineligible to be president again because of the Jan. 6 riot
By Mark ShermanThe Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court should declare that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, lawyers leading the fight to keep him off the ballot told the justices on […]